Deckcrafter’s Blood Diamond Review

Here’s a review of the Deckcrafter’s Blood Diamond from our Senior Golden Years Correspondant, Trevor:

I’ve spent many, many years snowboarding and riding a 42inch longboard around town. When I decided to get back into pool/park skateboarding last year I didn’t know much about it at all anymore.

I started my newest venture down the proverbial skate path on a 8 1/2 inch Creature with 139 indy’s and 58mm OP’s, but I kept finding myself wanting more and more width and stance. I researched, and researched, finally widdling my choices down to a 9 5/8 inch Deckcrafter Blood Diamond. I picked the Blood Diamond because it’s get tons of concave, it’s nice and long (34 inches) and has 2 choices for wheel base (16 3/4 and 17 1/2), which I like because I ride with a real open stance, plus the extended wheel base is great for pool carving and taller folk such as myself.

The deck is gorgeous out of the box, they use something called monococh finishing which, to my best guess, is a real shiny poly coating. It’s been incredibly easy to get used to with plenty of tail and nose rise which helps me with my biggest problem, being able to feel my foot placement. The width helped my confidence in dropping in and getting up and hugging those walls. I’ve been riding the Blood Diamond for 1 month now and I don’t think I could be any happier. I added 169 indy’s to it along with the insanely fast and smooth Rock n Rons Ballistic bearings, and 64mm 99a Speed Demon Shit Fires hitting the pavement.

This is my ideal skateboard.

I made the whole purchase from Denver Skate Shop online and have been very impressed with the costumer service and shipping (he even sent me a mess of stickers and two badass shop t-shirts). When I had a problem with one of my bearings from Rock n Ron, Paul at Denver Skate Shop replaced it right away.

I will definitely be supporting this shop whenever possible.